| 'I have two drives: one towards experimentation, the other towards campfire storytelling' … Jeff Noon |
Interview
Jeff Noon: a life in writing
'These Booker prize novels about human life or reality, whatever that is. That's never been my thing'
Saturday 20 April 2013
'A young boy puts a feather into his mouth ... " So, in 1993, began Jeff Noon's first novel, Vurt. It was something the like of which had never been seen before, and it established Noon – then a struggling 35-year-old playwright earning rent by working in the Deansgate branch of Waterstones and writing at night – as a figure of major promise in British science fiction.